Within the first chapter I highlight the extent Platonism influenced modern eschatology and motives for mission.
This dualism led to separating divine and secular history and suited the philosophy of secular historians ...
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Nigeria is very particular in its missionary focus; it strives towards preparing people for the Second Advent of Christ through preaching its unique set of doctrines. The denomination ...
Die Masterthesis zeigt auf, wie das Reich-Gottes-Verständnis die Theologie und die missionarische Praxis im hallischen Pietismus bei August Hermann Francke beeinflusst hat. Mittels einer Literaturarbeit wird in ...
Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht, wie die paulinische Ethik von der Eschatologie bestimmtwird. Ausgehend von einer Untersuchung der hellenistisch-römischen Jenseitserwartung und ihren (möglichen) ethischen Implikationen ...
In this study I search for a non-essentialist conception of liberation by searching for a non-essentialist eschatology in the work of John D. Caputo and staging a critical encounter between it and the eschatology of South ...
This study examines the eschatology of issues related to African folk religion. It argues about the eschatological understanding of time with regard to the afterlife, ancestors and the afterlife, Christ the eschaton and ...
This thesis attempts to explore the relationship between eschatology and mission. This is done in the context of three ecumenical mission conferences held from 1910 to 1938. In the first chapter an overview is given of a ...
This dissertation argues for the hope that is found in G. C. Berkouwer’s
doctrines of providence and bodily resurrection in relation to the terrorist attack
on September 11, 2001, and the rising pervasiveness of the ...
The mission over the last few decades, especially of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, has
focused on “confessionalism”. In this specific sense of mission growth—numeric growth—
has been a priority, and, unfortunately, ...
`Resurrection' can be approached from several angles. The most common angle is what this study avoids: pressing for a `yes' or a `no' answer as to whether `Jesus really rose from the dead'. That is, demanding a definitive ...
Cosmology and sociology show that animism is the predominant worldview of Japan.
Concepts of God, the issue of controlling mana-power, implications of the Japanese
soul-concept, the orientation of the conscience and ...
Forschungsgegenstand dieser Arbeit ist Johannes Lepsius' Missiologie. Aufgabe der Untersuchung ist es, die wichtigsten missiologischen Auffassungen und Überzeugungen von Johannes Lepsius aus der Vielzahl seiner veröffentlichten ...
This article focuses on Jürgen Moltmann’s understanding of the notion of the Kingdom of
God as formulated in his eschatology. The Kingdom of God is understood in many
different ways in the Christian faith. Some understandings ...
Weens kerke se eskatologiese verskille is daar twee hoofstrome van millennialisme: chiliasme en
antichiliasme, wat tradisioneel as alternatiewe teenoor mekaar gestel word.
Hierdie verhandeling behels egter 'n holistiese ...
Vorliegende missionstheologische Untersuchung geht aus von David J. Boschs ökumenischem Missionsparadigma als Vorschlag für ein ganzheitliches Missionsverständnis mit den Brennpunk-ten Verkündigung und soziales Engagement ...
This thesis examines whether the theological method currently known as inculturation was used in the Supper Narratives of the New Testament. A methodology is set up in which texts are examined against the backdrop of ...
This study reflects the belief systems of a nation living their lives as though in exile. It is
also an 'echo' of their spiritual journey, stretching from the dawn of humanity until the
time of Jesus Christ. It is the ...
Veldsman, Danie, 1959-(Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2013-11)
Emergence and eschatology – and their connection - represent most probably two of the most difficult topics to
explore within the current lively and intense ongoing science-religion dialogue. In this article the challenge ...
The study commenced by identifying a theological problem relating to the lack of understanding regarding grass-roots African Pentecostal healing praxis. The empirical-theological approach of Van der Ven was utilised, ...
The thesis explores the subject of purgatory and its relative value for modern people. It summarises:
1. The manner in which biblical texts used to underpin the doctrine;
2. The history of the doctrine within the Roman ...